Human variation in the Americas
Subtitle: the integration of archaeology and biological anthropology
By: edited by Benjamin M. Auerbach
Series: Occasional paper -- no. 38
Publisher: Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Carbondale, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780881040951
Subjects: Human geography; Physical anthropology; Human anatomy; Demographic archaeology; Variation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Finding common ground in the archaeology and biology of the Americas' past  -- Benjamin M. Auerbach; title: Ancient and modern genetic variation in the Americas  -- Brian M. Kemp and Theodore G. Schurr; title: Peopling the Americas via multiple migrations from Beringia :; title: evidence from the early Holocene of the Columbia Plateau  -- James C. Chatters; title: Human skeletal variation and environmental diversity in northwestern North America  -- Jerome S. Cybulski; title: Discrete dental trait evidence of migration patterns in the northern Southwest  -- Kathy R. Durand, Meradeth Snow, David Glenn Smith, and Stephen R. Durand; title: The introduction of agriculture and the foundation of biological variation in the southern Southwest  -- James T. Watson; title: Giants among us? Morphological variation and migration on the Great Plains  -- Benjamin M. Auerbach; title: Skeletal evidence of cultural variation :; title: mutilation related to warfare  -- Christopher W. Schmidt, Rachel Lockhart Sharkey, Christopher Newman, Anna Serrano, Melissa Zolnierz, Jeffrey A. Plunkett, and Anne Bader; title: Population history of the Moquegua Valley, far south coast of Peru  -- Ken-ichi Shinoda, Sonia E. Guillén, and Izumi Shimada; title: Climate variation, biological adaptation, and postcranial metric variation in precontact North America  -- Kathryn S. King; title: Body proportions in recent Native Americans :; title: colonization history versus ecogeographical patterns  -- Richard L. Jantz, Paul Marr, and Claire A. Jantz; title: Human settlement in the New World :; title: multidisciplinary approaches, the "Beringan" standstill, and the shape of things to come  -- David G. Anderson; title: Bridging the empirical divide of human variation research in the New World -- Kenneth E. Sassaman.